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Old 02-02-2004
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Aye, why use a toothpick where a sledgehammer will do!!

Rumor is that Microsoft is the next target...


I too tried to goto sco site and it was down! go figure!! If that was my company 24 hours down is unacceptable!!


FYI... The worm is not necessarily malicious to your PC only that it uses it to launch a "denial of service" attack from your PC. Of course it will bring down your mail servers too!! but not your PC...

You will just have a few more messages in your outbox/inbox...